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Larry wrote Hi Florent. Love your site. With the smoking girl from panel 3 to 4, can you provide tips on how you you get to the soft blending of shades of her skin, nose, etc using Paper? What combination and order of tools do you use? Thanks. Larry. Hi Larry, unfortunately I haven’t got a recipe, since I’m not an “academic drawer”, it’s more about a trial and error process (which usually takes a lot of time).  To help, I made a new animated sketch of “The smoking girl” (with more details than the four-steps note previously released). I began with the shadows, using the black paintbrush on a slight pencil outline, adding layers of black watercolor, to complete the general “volumes” of the sketch. Shapes and shades are corrected with the pencil, using black and grey colors.  Pencil marks are, then, smoothened with white paintbrush (by applying little touches). Grey paintbrush is also used to “warm up” the sketch, and smooth black and white tones, at the same time.  Then, I do it again, with pencil (black, grey and white, by small and fast touches), smoothened by watercolors (black, white and grey), until it looks more “real”. By the way, do not hesitate to use the white marker on the shone parts, but with parcimony : only dots where the light is reflected. The rendering can be quite impressive. I lack time, these days, but I’ll try to make a more “step by step” how-to for the next sketch (maybe a video, don’t know yet). Meanwhile, I hope the animated how-to attached here will help you. Oh wait, I forgot the most important : the model. The smoking girl is inspired by this picture of I guess Kate Moss   

Larry wrote
Hi Florent. Love your site. With the smoking girl from panel 3 to 4, can you provide tips on how you you get to the soft blending of shades of her skin, nose, etc using Paper? What combination and order of tools do you use? Thanks. Larry.

Hi Larry, unfortunately I haven’t got a recipe, since I’m not an “academic drawer”, it’s more about a trial and error process (which usually takes a lot of time). 
To help, I made a new animated sketch of “The smoking girl” (with more details than the four-steps note previously released).
  • I began with the shadows, using the black paintbrush on a slight pencil outline, adding layers of black watercolor, to complete the general “volumes” of the sketch.
  • Shapes and shades are corrected with the pencil, using black and grey colors. 
  • Pencil marks are, then, smoothened with white paintbrush (by applying little touches).
  • Grey paintbrush is also used to “warm up” the sketch, and smooth black and white tones, at the same time. 
  • Then, I do it again, with pencil (black, grey and white, by small and fast touches), smoothened by watercolors (black, white and grey), until it looks more “real”.
  • By the way, do not hesitate to use the white marker on the shone parts, but with parcimony : only dots where the light is reflected. The rendering can be quite impressive.
I lack time, these days, but I’ll try to make a more “step by step” how-to for the next sketch (maybe a video, don’t know yet). Meanwhile, I hope the animated how-to attached here will help you.
  • Oh wait, I forgot the most important : the model.
The smoking girl is inspired by this picture of I guess Kate Moss 
Kate Moss

 

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An alternative to the Bamboo stylus ?

jasonpaper has found an alternative to the damn Bamboo $tylu$, it’s called TouchTec® Gen III Precision Touch, and it’s available on Amazon (see the link below).  If you already use it, your feedback should interests us.

I had a Bamboo and it broke in a week. Then I ordered this and 2 months later it’s still going. The nib is basically the same as the Bamboo, and it’s less than half the price. Plus I like the longer pen, easier to hold…

wouterzartz comments :
If you want absolute precision buy the Adonit Jo (or Jot Pro). There is no better one than that one).

m2parquitetura’s Adonit feedback ( <— btw, you must see his sketches) :

I agree, the Bamboo stylus is very, very comfortable to sketch with, but the Adonit Jot-Pro has a best point and line precision, the only bad thing is that when I use it I try not harm the screen of the Ipad for its hard point. I just got mine, but I´m still a bamboo fan, despite the problems we have with it.

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